Paper Dandelions

Spring is the time of blooming flowers so celebrate spring by making your own paper dandelion flowers in class or at home.

We’ll show you how to make these adorable spring flowers from paper in just a few easy steps.

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This is a simple craft where you cut different pieces of paper and turn them into beautiful stems, leaves and flowers.

To make these paper dandelions even more beautiful, we added two little paper ladybugs flying around them.

We love the warmer weather and with our DIY spring projects you’ll make spring come early. Paper Flowers are a great craft idea to make with your kids using leftover colored paper. And if you want to get artistic with paint, check out our Drip Flowers.

How to make paper dandelion flowers

What you need:

light blue cardboard
yellow crepe paper
paper (green, red and black)
Googly eyes
pencil
glue
drag

Let’s build it.

Step by step instructions

Cut yellow crepe paper into strips about 1 inch long.

Fold it in half and use scissors to cut out nice looking cuts.

The ribbon will look like this.

Apply a little glue to the edge…

… and roll it up to make a dandelion flower.

If needed, add a little glue at the end so the flowers can stick together.

Trim off excess flower heads.

Now make a dandelion bouquet by repeating the above steps.

Cut thin strips of green paper to make the flower stems.

Draw some leaves on a green paper…

Cut them out and use scissors to zigzag the edges.

Glue the flower branches together…

add flowers…

…and leaves on cardboard.

Now draw a ladybug shape on black paper and cut it out.

Draw that shape on red paper and cut it out.

Cut a small piece from the red shape to make the ladybug’s wings.

Glue the ladybug’s body, wings and bulging eyes together.

Use a marker to draw some dots on the ladybug and glue them onto cardboard.

Your paper dandelion painting is done!

You can use different shades of green for the stem and leaves if you like.

They look so cute!

Happy crafting!

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